Just as CPR helps you assist an individual having a heart attack - even if you have no clinical training - Mental Health First Aid helps you assist someone experiencing a mental health related crisis. In the Mental Health First Aid course, you learn risk factors and warning signs for mental health and addiction concerns, strategies for how to help someone in both crisis and non-crisis situations, and where to turn for help.

Each workshop needs a minimum of 10 registrations and can hold up to 30 participants; Registrations are taken on a first-come, first-served basis; Registrations with no payment will be cancelled; Each site has a registration waiting list; No more sites or dates will be added; The cost is $50.00 per person; cost includes the fees for certified instructors and a participant's manual; This is an 8 hour class, running 9:00AM-5:30PM, with ½ hour lunch break. Participants should plan to bring their lunch and refreshments, as none will be provided at the venues; This workshop will be worth 8 continuing education credits.

Please register in the catalog, then print off the payment form, and mail the form with your registration payment to IaLS/State Library, 1112 E. Grand Ave., Des Moines, IA 50319.

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